High Mayhem March 5 All For Now (Thollem McDonas and John Deiterich of Deerhoof)

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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
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*All For Now*
*(Thollem McDonas and John Deiterich of Deerhoof)*
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Saturday, March 5 at 9pm
2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM

‘A night of short animated films by NY filmmaker Martha Colburn accompanied
by All For Now’

Martha Colburn’s work utilizes the language and materials of film making to
comment on popular culture, consumerism, politics and sexuality. Through a
collage of live action (paint-on-glass) animations, found footage, and
documentary filmmaking techniques, she addresses contemporary topics to
express her personal anxieties and passions. Martha’s films are a disturbing
and at times humorous take on popular and political culture. She creates
elaborately layered collages,paintings, and installations that incorporate
transparencies,recordings, and live performances. As her conceptual process
grows, so follows advances in an already detailed and labor-intensive
animating process. Martha is expanding her technique into working with
multi-plane glass animation, which represents a physical manifestation of
her conceptually layered ideas. Currently, Martha is working on films that
combine art historical representations and current depictions of politics to
challenge our notions of truth and fantasy. As a descendent of some of
America’s earliest settlers (ministers, farmers and wagon train members),
her work demonstrates an awareness of the repository of the guilt haunted
twisted history of the American soul. Martha’s current work draws from this
perspective and personal experience to address issues such as
Methamphetamine use, environmental catastrophes, and man’s relationship to
nature.

All For Now is one of those special meetings, when the empathy and
complicity between two players emerge into something far wider, complex, and
profound than the simple circumstance of their encounter. How fitting that
these two musicians should come together for their first recording at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art! McDonas on piano and voice, and
Dieterich (from Deerhoof) on guitar here present lovely, spare, sometimes
jarring, sometimes gentle improvisations that are thoroughly modernistic
works of art in their own right. – KFJC

Guitarist John Dieterich from Deerhoof accompanies the virtuoso pianist
Thollem McDonas, who has been active for years back and forth between North
America and Europe. All For Now is a series of duets characterised by strong
and vivid tension. Pieces that are generally short, focused on the
dissimulating and extremely diversified movements of Thollem, who moves from
Debussy to Satie’s sparseness, with tasty hints from Monk to the most
experimental moments until the piano seems to be prepared. For his part,
Dieterich brushes and designs without ever overdoing except occasionally,
reserving the harshest and acid chords to few – but very incisive – songs.
The music flows with the appearance of improvisation though not with the
more typical and obvious features.
- Blow Up Magazine


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